Dredging & Flood Defence

Anders Invest, the Netherlands based investment company that focuses on partnering with tech orientated Dutch SMEs, has acquired a minority stake in ROHR-IDRECO Dredging Systems.

A new low turbidity dredging head that promises to make ports and harbours’ dredging activities significantly less damaging to the environment has received seed funding in the UK.

Netherlands based C-Job Naval Architects has launched an in-house developed trailing suction hopper dredger series intended to fill the gap between standard designs and fully tailored vessels.

Royal IHC officially handed over the cutter suction dredger Mohab Mameesh to the Suez Canal Authority at ceremonies in Rotterdam last month.

Bakker Sliedrecht, the Netherlands based provider of electrical and automation solutions for the marine industry, is starting research to determine whether biodegradable oil can be used in submersible motors.

Belgiums Jan De Nul has added two newbuild dredgers to it international fleet with deliveries of the cutter suction dredger Willem van Rubroeck and the trailing suction hopper dredger Galileo Galilei.

Belgiums DEME Group has won a large contract for the Abu Qir port project in Egypt, for which it will deploy the newbuild cutter suction dredger Spartacus.

Dutch dredging major Van Oord has been contracted to dredge the water intake basin of Taiwans Da Tan power plant.